i've never coached a down of football in my life. however--i am 51 years old and played tecmo bowl pretty religiously on my nintendo back in the day and just by playing that video game i understand how to call timeouts better than dan quinn. he simply doesn't have a freaking clue on when and when not to call timeouts. he is awful on any type of game management situation period! he has never impressed me with this since he's been here! it's really mind-boggling as to the amount of simple football 101 stuff he misses. i'm sure he's a great guy and everything but so am i--problem is i'm not getting paid millions of dollars. he is--and it looks like mr. blank is going to continue to let him and this staff make those idiotic basic football mistakes.
now to other members of the staff that need to be gone:
dimitrioff--bye
keith "freaking" armstrong-BYE! i'm so sick of his return men being the laughing stock of this league. hey armstrong! please instruct your sucky returners that if the ball is kicked into the end zone that if you stay in the end zone-your offense starts at the 25 yard line. it's really pretty simple stuff! especially since we never bust a return past the 25 and if we ever DO--which is almost never--then there is a penalty! now remember-i've never coached a football game in my life-BUT-i do know the difference in the 25 yard line and inside the 10 if you decide to bring it out. yesterday--the moron didn't let it go through the end zone instead-runs it about to yards and fumbles--luckily gets it back and then ryan proceeds to throw his lazy out route to hooper that is taken to the house. starts with the special teams being dumb! to be honest i can't even think of all the bonehead stuff armstrong has been allowed to get away with since he's been here--but i do know that is punt team has given up more punt blocks than any unit in football over the past 5 years. he's a joke--i would love to know what we are paying this joke!
sark: bye
dude please--play action doesn't work if you can't run the ball in the first place! quit running play action if you're down more than 20 points. this isn't the falcons defense in practice--i know they fall for that crap. but any nfl defense not named atlanta is not going to bite on play action if they are up 20 or haven't given up a run all day. also, please put some throws in your plan that are more than just 10 yard curls. i'm so tired of watching the all-22 cam and not seeing one receiver beyond 10 yards! and all of these little 2 yard throws--the best thing that can happen is a 2 yard completion--the worst things are happening: sack, int. or fumble. let's just cut those out and run a draw. oh yeah, and you can't run a screen pass on a team that is not having to sell out to get to the qb. green bay rushing four doesn't tell me to throw screen. in fact, it makes me laugh!
manual: bye
no coverage, no legitimate pass rush, we finally had a blitz get home yesterday, line backer play is laughable-especially when riley is in the game.
please meet with your front four and let them know that if all of them are within about 3-feet of the qb--they are throwing a screen!!!! dude we ain't ever getting that much heat. also, how about spending some time throwing the ball to our defenders! alford can't catch a cold, trufant has hands of stone, deion jones dropped a ball somehow yesterday that was impossible to drop--would've been a score! green bay's guy didn't drop his! k. neal dropped balls last year that cost us a playoff game. ricardo allen can't catch! what are we doing at practice? that's waaaaaaaaaaaaay too many drops! looks like julio and ridley been working with them!
blank: how can you watch this crap and not do something about it? i almost could understand giving quinn another chance after all of the injuries--but after watching the last few weeks--i've changed my mine! injuries or not--quinn has not improved on any in game stuff since the first day he got here! it's time to cut bait with him! probably should've been done after the super bowl debacle! definitely needs to happen now! as for the other guys i mentioned--they should already be gone!
this is coming from a guy that's missed 0 games since 1972! season ticket holder in the dome from '92-01! and someone that actually still cares about this franchise. don't wait any longer--this team needs new blood and a lot better coaches!